Steve Waltner has been played on NTS shows including Got Kinda Lost Records Presents Planet Fever, with Tropic Waters first played on 24 July 2021.

Resembling the roiling rush of ocean tides rising and charging back to land, surf music combined a visceral, throttling charge of amped up reverb, frenetic, and staccato guitar leads. Unissued in its early-’60s prime, Corby Records’ main man Steve Waltner, and his comrade Denny Hardesty, cut this vital, throbbing trio of surf instros, imbued with insistent, one-note piano lines; rapid-fire, chicken-pickin’-type runs with wordless and monosyllabic unbridled screams; and exotica-adjacent, Spanish guitar-bred serenity.